This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposedThis is the fourth and final blog in the series “SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed” – designed to help SUSE Linux Enterprise customers and partners better understand what they can learn from a SUSE YES Certification bulletin. The goal is to …

In the IT industry we collectively suffer from a severe case of bipolar disorder. On the one hand “we want stability and no changes” on the other hand “we want new features and innovation now.” These extremes provide ample ground for debate, models for distribution life cycles, and last but not least opportunities to come …

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposedThis is the third blog in the series “SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed” – designed to help SUSE Linux Enterprise customers and partners better understand what they can learn from a SUSE YES Certification bulletin. The goal is to lessen the …

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposedThis is the second blog in the series “SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed” – designed to help SUSE Linux Enterprise customers and partners better understand what they can learn from an online published SUSE YES Certification bulletin. The goal is to …

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposedWhat information is important for you to have documented on a SUSE YES Certification bulletin? Can the information documented on a bulletin help you with your hardware purchasing decisions, reduce future stress and eliminate a number of future pesky headaches? The …

If you know what a Minnowboard Max is you’re already asking yourself why? “Why would anyone want to build an HPC cluster from these things?” Quite frankly, the answer is “Because I can”. In preparing for the Super Computing 2014 show in New Orleans, I received 6 of these lovely units as giveaways. Being that …

Once again, SUSE will be present at the Super Computing event of the year. This year we are focused on innovation and what SUSE is doing that provides a positive impact in the HPC community. We will have SUSE Labs personnel around all week to discuss some of the great new features and kernel internals …

We’ve been working with HDS for some time now in regards to SAP HANA solutions. As a company, HDS understands how to efficiently deliver SAP and SAP HANA to clients around the globe. At this week’s TechEd & d-Code show, they stepped it up a notch by adding SUSE Manager to the mix. This addition of …

The new SAPHanaSR solution created by SUSE is to automate the takeover in SAP HANA system replication setups. The basic idea is that only synchronizing the data to the second SAP HANA instance is not enough, as this only solves the problem of having the data shipped to a second instance…

To my experience, only very rarely a SLES or openSUSE update RPM will try to restart the service it is updating. But if it does, and you were preparing a production server for the maintenance window by installing updated files prior to the actual scheduled time (which you shouldn’t, but does work most of the …